books.google.com - This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual...http://books.google.com/books/about/Liberty_Before_Liberalism.html?id=w1VyEwGpKGEC&q=constitutional&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLiberty Before Liberalism